Bangladesh

CIMA SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE AT Chartered University College.

2012-01-11T14:46:00.000+06:00

Chartered University College is going to arrange an event for Corporate Professionals interested in undertaking CPGA/CMGA/CGA entry route or CIMA qualification in general.

The main attraction of the day event would be a 100% Scholarship Offer for students interested in CIMA qualification. The application form and procedure and assessment criterion would be rolled out on the event.

The attendants would be able to consult on a one-to-one basis with our Head of CIMA Operations, faculty members and some notable CIMA members working in multinational corporates. Please see below the events of the Open Day:

Day Events: (12:00 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.)

Program Details:

CIMA Introduction.
Career Counseling.
Personalized Counseling.
Question & Answer Session.
Scholarship form distribution.
Guideline on scholarship requirements and assessment criterion.

Evening Events: (05:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.)

Program Details:

CIMA Introduction.
CMGA/CPGA/CGA entry route.
Exam techniques
CPGA/CMGA/CGA examination syllabus outline
Question & Answer Session.
Light refreshments will be served

The CPGA/CMGA/CGA examination technique and syllabus outline would be conducted in two sessions. First session would take place from 5:30pm to 6:30 pm (sharp). The Second session is scheduled from 6:30pm to 7:30pm (sharp). Please make sure you note the timings. Thank you.

IPO FORM OF GSP FINANCE COMPANY (BANGLADESH) LTD.

2012-01-05T12:22:00.001+06:00

GSPB was incorporated in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 29th October 1995 with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms. It started its commercial operation from 17th April 1996 under license granted by Bangladesh Bank in accordance with the Financial Institutions Act of 1993.

It started with a favorable climate for financial institution, which could meet the requirements and challenges of the 21st century, by providing adequate financing and expertise to boost the industrial growth of Bangladesh.

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Ruhul Amin Khandakar, a Scholar of Bangladesh penalized Jail by Bangladesh High Court.

2012-01-05T11:16:00.000+06:00

High court of Bangladesh proclaim Ruhul Amin Khandakar as guilty in absentia of contempt of court after failing to return from Australia in response to a court summons.
Last year Mr Khandakar posted comments implying that he wanted Sheikh Hasina to die, high court officials said. His comment reportedly related to Bangladesh's high road fatality rate.
It was posted following the death of one of the country's best known film makers, Tareq Masud, in a road accident in August, which left many Bangladeshis deeply shocked. According to officials, Ruhul Khandakar blamed the government for the fact there are so many road deaths in Bangladesh.
The high court ordered officials to return Mr Khandakar, who is studying in Australia, to Bangladesh. It also directed his university employers to take action against him.

Shamim Osman is challanged by Kobori Sarwar, who campaigns for Ivy.

2011-10-28T11:37:00.000+06:00

Ruling MP Sarah Begum Kabari has taken part in Narayanganj mayor candidate Selina Hayat Ivy's campaign and challenge Shamim Osman. She asked the residents of Shiddhirganj wards 1 and 2 on Thursday afternoon to vote for the Narayanganj Awami League vice-president. "Ivy is a tested leader. She has done much development during her time as the municipality mayor," Kabari told reporters.

"Narayanganj needs Ivy for its development," she said. Ivy's rival candidate Shamim Osman, a former Awami League MP, with whom Kabari also has a longstanding feud, secured the party's support for Narayanganj City Corporation's first election.Votes will be held in the city on Oct 30.

All five parliament seats in Narayanganj district are taken by Awami League. Kabari is the only MP of the five to not join Shamim's campaign and to support Ivy's candidacy. Metropolitan Awami League president Anwar Hossain was present with Ivy and Kabari during the campaign.

Transport Strike to save Murderer Jamir Hossain, Killer of Tareque Masud & Mishuk Munier.

2011-10-27T17:05:00.000+06:00

The Bus Owners' and Workers' Unity Council has declared that they will enforce a transport strike on 41 routes of the North Western region of the country inorder to release the killer driver Jamir Hossain, who is alleged for murdering Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier. Khulna Transport Workers Unity Council general secretary Sahadat Hossain Mridha told on Thursday, "Although bus movement has been suspended on 18 routes of Khulna, we will sit with the Jessore workers union at noon to take the final decision."

Besides this, the strike is continuing on the 21 routes of the Jessore district, he added. Earlier on Wednesday, the association called an indefinite bus strike in 21 southwestern districts, demanding release of the driver who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of filmmaker Tareque masud and television personality Mishuk Munier.

On the same evening, transport workers federation chief Shahjahan Khan said that the indefinite bus strike was withdrawn within six hours of its start as the government had given its assurance that it would accept all the demands. Transport workers federation secretary general Khandakar Enayat Ullah also supported Khan's speech. However, Bus Owners' and Workers' Unity Council convener S M Sah Alam refuted the announcement on withdrawal of the strike.

On Aug 30, a head-on collision between a microbus, carrying Tareque and Mishuk, and a bus of Deluxe Paribahan from Chuadanga killed five people. Tareque and Mishuk were among the dead. Later, Police arrested bus driver Jamir Hossain from Chuadanga who is now in Manikganj jail.

Right Share Form of Bank Asia Ltd.

2011-10-22T17:12:00.000+06:00

Private operated owned public commercial national Bank in Bangladesh. Giving different services to their clients like savings and current bank account with low service charge. SMS, mobile, online Internet banking to get the financial statement, SWIFT code and pay utility bills for you and your company. See the interest rate for lone, charges for debit and credit cards. List and locations of ATM booth. And more.

Recently Bank Asia Issue right share for its existing shareholders.

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Right Share Form of Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd.

2011-10-16T23:26:00.001+06:00

Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd. recently offer 1:1 right share for its shareholders.

On 20 January 2003 Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd. was made into a public limited company. Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd. (LSC) was incorporated on 11 November 1997 as a private limited company in Bangladesh under the Companies Act 1994 having its registered office in Dhaka.The Company is listed in Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchange. Today, Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd. has more than 10,000 shareholders.

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Right Share Form of United Airways BD Limited.

2011-10-16T00:45:00.000+06:00

United Airways is an airline with its head office in the Uttara Tower in Uttara Thana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded in 2005 and began flights on 10 July 2007 with its first aircraft, a Dash 8-100, purchased from Island Air. The airline's first jet aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83. The airline received its first wide-body aircraft, an Airbus A310, in late 2010.

Recently United Airways offer Right share for its existing shareholders. And the last date of submission has been extend to 18th October, 2011.

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RPO FORM OF BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORPORATION.

2011-09-15T16:24:00.000+06:00

The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), a state owned and managed public sector Corporation, is the largest ship owner in Bangladesh was established on 5th February 1972 under President’s Order No. 10 of 1972 with the objectives of providing efficient, safe, reliable and economic shipping services to the local exporters, importers and business houses, to develop sustainable shipping and ancillary infrastructures in a sovereign nation which just became independent on 16th December 1971 after a nine month long liberation war and thereby reducing dependence on foreign flag vessels to stop drainage of hard earned foreign exchange from the national exchequer.

Recently Bangladesh Shipping Corporation offer Repeat Public Offering (RPO) approved by SEC.

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Bangladesh Bank’s Approval to more banks may horrify the monetary situation.

2011-09-15T11:57:00.000+06:00

The proponents of the new banks argue that the new operators will infuse more competition into the banking industry and thus bring benefits to the clients. "The (Bangladesh Bank) Board has finalized a set of guidelines including new conditions with the older regulations," said A F M Asaduzzaman, a deputy general manager in the governor's office. "The old regulations have been amended substantially.

Later, a senior official who did not want to be named said the new banks would require a minimum paid-up capital of Tk 400 crore from its sponsors. "And in three years, they have to go public," said the official, who attended the Board meeting, "and raise an amount equal to the paid-up capital." The official said the new guidelines took a tough line against "loan and tax defaulters" and would not allow anyone even with a family member having such a record.

Those criticizing the move say the already overcrowded market does not need new ones and that the initiative is designed to dole out favors to political friends. Two former governors have locked horns over the issue, with Mohammed Farashuddin backing it while Salehuddin Ahmed denouncing it.

The finance minister, A M A Muhith, has already responded to the debate saying that it is a "political decision" to create new banks. Asked, whether any politician would be benefited from the initiatives, he told a reporter on July 24: "Maybe, I don't know." Muhith did not say how many new banks will be allowed. The minister had earlier announced in parliament that the government would issue new banking licenses despite strong insistence from the central bank that no more banks were necessary.

There are 47 banks operating in Bangladesh, alongside hundreds of other financial services companies. The last time new banks were created was during the 1996–2001 Awami League rule. Since then, the central bank has received 82 applications for licenses. Of them, 20 have been filed since the Awami League returned power in Jan 2009. The Sheikh Hasina government has recently established a new bank for the welfare of expatriates. The prime minister has announced setting up of another with expatriates' capitals.After the independence, the number of banks in the country had been six. The country had gotten first private banks after privatisation of Pubali and Uttara banks during military strongman Hussein Muhammad Ershad's regime. Ershad took the number of private banks to nine. BNP, between 1991 and 1996, gave permission to another eight.

The 1996-2001 Awami League set up as many as 13 more.

INDIAN OPPOSITION WINS INTERMS OF TEESTA

2011-09-07T12:51:00.000+06:00

Manmohan Singh arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday on a two-day trip, accompanied by the minister for external affairs and four chief ministers of the bordering states. He is reciprocating the visit of prime minister Sheikh Hasina to India in January last year.

Indian water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and West-Bengal chief minister, who were in the list of the entourage of the Indian prime minister, did not come as Mamata was apparently testy over the proposed modalities of the Teesta water sharing.

The prime ministers had one-on-one meeting before and after the official talks on the Day-1 of his tour. After the meeting, both the prime ministers signed framework agreement on cooperation for development, and witnessed signing of one protocol, addendum of one protocol and eight memoranda of understanding.

However, following strong opposition from West-Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Bangladesh and India could not sign the agreements on Teesta and Feni water sharing. Manmohan in his speech said, "Our common rivers need not be sources of discord, instead can become the harbingers of prosperity to both the countries. "We have decided to continue discussions to reach a mutually acceptable, fair and amicable arrangement for the sharing of the waters of Teesta and Feni rivers."

International affairs adviser to the prime minister Gowher Rizvi, one of the key coordinators of the Indian premier's visit, said some consultations were needed in India before the agreement was signed. "We have agreed in principle on the modalities of the agreement and are hopeful of signing the deal within couple of months," he said. When asked if Bangladesh sought any explanation from India, he said, "There is no need to seek explanation. We understand the reality." "We had landmark success in the visit and now it is time to celebrate," he said.

Indian foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai in Delhi on Monday said any agreement between New Delhi and Dhaka on sharing of the Teesta water would have to be acceptable to the West Bengal government as well as to Bangladesh. He, however, said the proposed deal on sharing of the water of Feni between Bangladesh and India was on track. But he was non-committal on the deal on Teesta. "Water is a very sensitive issue. Nothing is done or will be done without the consent of the state government," Mathai told journalists, in response to a query whether the deal on Teesta would be signed during prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka.

The government signed a protocol to implement the land boundary agreement signed in 1974. Manmohan said, "We have signed a Protocol to the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) of 1974. With this, both the countries have now demarcated the entire land boundary as well as resolved the issue of status of the enclaves and adversely possessed areas." He continued, "As the prime minister Sheikh Hasina just announced, we have worked out 24-hour access to the enclaves of Dahagram-Angarpota through the Tin Bigha Corridor."

Hasina earlier in her speech said "I would like to announce that from now on, our people in Dahagram and Angorpota will have 24-hour unfettered movement through the Tin Bigha Corridor." The land boundary problems have persisted since 1947, and to resolve the issue, a joint headcount was conducted recently that found about 51,000 people live in these enclaves – 34,000 in Bangladesh and 17,000 in India. Bangladesh has 111 Indian enclaves and India houses 51 Bangladeshi enclaves.

Dhaka and Delhi did not exchange any 'letter' on transit to pave the way for smooth movement of goods through Bangladesh. Asked if Bangladesh did not agree on transit as India did not sign water agreement, Gowher Rizvi said, "Our relationship is based on trust. We don't believe in such relationship where if you don't get anything you will reciprocate by not giving other things."

NO FROM INDIAN OPPOSITION FOR THE TEESTA TREATY.

2011-09-02T10:54:00.000+06:00

The AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary said that people of Assam would "oppose tooth and nail" any move by India's central government in New Delhi to give away even "an inch of land" of Bangladesh, even if such an initiative was endorsed by the State Government headed by Gogoi.

The AGP – a regional party – staged a protest demonstration in Guwahati on Monday, denouncing the purported move by New Delhi to strike a swap-deal with Dhaka to resolve the issues related land boundary. Patowary said that any such a move on the part of the governments in the centre and the state could lead to serious turmoil in Assam.

Even the BJP – the principal opposition party in Indian parliament – strongly opposed New Delhi's purported plan to strike an exchange agreement with Dhaka to settle the issues related to enclaves and adversely possessed land between Bangladesh and India. Pradyut Bora, the general secretary of the BJP's state unit in Assam, said that the party would oppose the government's plan both legally and politically.

With purported illegal migration from Bangladesh to India and alleged encroachment of Indian territories by people of Bangladesh along the Bangladesh-India border being a major political issue in Assam, both the AGP and BJP are likely to step up their offensives against the Congress governments in the state and centre, protesting their moves to settle the issues between New Delhi and Dhaka by a give-and-take formula.

There are 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh with 17,160 acres of land and a population of about 37000 people. India on the other hand has 51 Bangladeshi enclaves with 7110 acres of land and a population of about 14000 people.

Altogether 1880.81 acres of Indian land are in adverse possession of Bangladesh. India adversely possesses 1165.49 acres of land of Bangladesh.

During prime minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi in Jan 2010, Bangladesh and India agreed to comprehensively address all outstanding land boundary issues, keeping in view the spirit of the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement. The Bangladesh-India Joint Boundary Working Group has since been trying to work out a swap deal to resolve the border dispute once and for all.

Teesta flows through Sikkim and northern part of West Bengal before entering Bangladesh.

As West Bengal is also largely dependent on Teesta for irrigation and hydropower generation, India's central government has been factoring in the views of the state government while negotiating the interim treaty with Bangladesh for sharing of the water of the river.

IPO FORM OF ZAHINTEX INDUSTRIES LTD.

2011-08-29T12:22:00.000+06:00

Zahintex Industries Ltd is a 100% export oriented readynade garment company in Bangladesh. Zahintex wants to increase its capital by 500 million Tk. Therefore it issue IPO to the General Public.

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DHAKA - MYMENSINGH Highway is Most NEGLECTED Highway.

2011-08-14T12:53:00.001+06:00

The BUS owners stopped bus operations on 12 routes along the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway demanding repair of the road to make it fit for running the vehicles. A strike by the bus operators spelled indescribable woes for Dhaka-bound commuters from Gazipur and Mymensingh districts on Thursday. Osman Ali, a leader of Mohakhali Bus Terminal Transport Owners' Association, told bdnews24.com that they would keep their vehicles off the road until it is repaired.

Around 300 buses run on the highway to carry about 25,000 passengers daily On Thursday, many passengers had to walk from Boardbazar in Gazipur to Chandona Chourasta as some inter-district buses were running from there. Many students from Gazipur did not attend classes because of the transport problem. Mohakhali Bus Terminal Transport Owners' Association secretary Mohammad Abul Kalam told bdnews24.com that the highway from Gazipur to Mymensingh is unfit for driving. "Recently 15-16 of our buses developed engines problems due to water-logged road. We had to spend Tk 70-75 thousand to repair each of them," he said.

"That's why we stopped operating buses bound for Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Kishoreganj, Netrokona and some northern districts," Kalam said. General secretary of Bangladesh Road Transport Association (Gazipur branch) Kamrul Ahsan Russell said they had submitted a memorandum to the communications minister seeking solutions to the problem, but no steps have been taken yet. Executive engineer of Gazipur Roads and Highways Department Mohammad Fazle Rabbi blamed unplanned establishment of industries and lack of drainage system along the highway for its rundown condition. "Some of the dyeing and washing factories are discharging waste through drains towards the roadside creating water-logging," he said.

The grater Mymensingh region is always treated as ignored area to the Government. No Government take proper step to develop this region. The result is the FOUR day strike running by the BUS Owners of grater Mymensingh locality due to demand for repairing the highway.

IPO FORM OF RANGPUR DAIRY & FOOD PRODUCTS LTD.

2011-08-10T12:17:00.000+06:00

Milk Producers

Change in life styles of rural families in terms of:

• Regular high income through co-operative efforts

• Women participation in income generation
• Remunerative prices for milk
• Increase of milk productivity through input and extension activities

Customers

• Timely Supply of Quality & Healthy Products
• Supply high quality milk and milk products at affordable prices
• Focused on Nutritional Foods
• More than 7 lakh happy customers
• High customer satisfaction

Employees

• Enhancing the Technical and Managerial skills of Employees through continuous training and development
• Best appraisal systems to motivate employees
• Incentive, bonus and reward systems to encourage employees

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Bombardier Aerospace CASE STUDY.

2011-07-25T15:04:00.000+06:00

The background of the case started with the strategic alliance between Bombardier Aerospace and NATO. After the agreement, NATO Flight Training in Canada (NFTC) started its operation at summer 2002 as Ground Based Flight Training School in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and Cold lake, Alberta.

NFTC students were instructed in a series of modules commencing with ground-based training followed by in-air instruction. Students typically graduated following instruction on a series of aircrafts. This instruction began on a turbo prop Harvard T-6 aircraft built by Raytheon Aircraft Company out of Wichita, Kansas, followed by the single engine British Aerospace Hawk aircraft and then ultimately onto powerful fighter aircraft such as the McDonnell Douglas CF-18. The program’s duration of 18 months typically required the students to live in shared rooms on the military base.

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RAB declared the Hasina GOB as TERRORIST.

2011-05-25T11:29:00.000+06:00

On May 19, prime minister's defence advisor Tarique Ahmed Siddique said Limon and father had close ties with gangster Morshed Jamaddar. Two days later, home minister Shahara Khatun said the adviser's remarks about Limon was indeed the Government's statement. Bozlul Haq Harun, a Government MP, elected from Jhalakati-1 helped Limon and his family (Prothom-Alo 25/05/2011). If this is the consequence than Government has a close relation with Terrorism Groups.

The home ministry's inquiry committee looking into the RAB shooting of college student Limon Hossain of Jhalakati has taken statements of Limon and his father. The one-man committee of additional divisional commissioner of Barisal Mohammad Shawkat Akbar on Tuesday spoke to Limon and his father Tofazzal Hossain at the National Institute of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (Pangu hospital) in Dhaka from 11:30am to 1:30pm. The father and son signed their statements, he said. Physician Gazi Mohammad Enamul Haque was present during the recording of the statements.

A RAB team shot Limon, who used to work in a brick kiln, in the leg after reportedly taking him to a place adjacent to his house at Jamaddarhat in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakati on Mar 23. The paramilitary force denies the charges. The incident took place less than a fortnight before his Higher Secondary Certificate examinations were set to begin.

RAB filed two cases against the teenager — one under the arms act and the other for making attempts to murder and injure RAB personnel. Limon's mother Henuara Begum on Apr 10 filed an attempt-to-murder case against six RAB men. "I WENT TO BRING HOME MY COW" After giving his statement, Limon told reporters that a RAB member had shot him in the left leg when he had gone near the Old Jamaddarhat Bridge to bring home his cow. "The RAB member wore a name tag that read 'Lutfar'," he said.

GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE FIRMING LOAN TRHOUGH MICROCREDIT PROCESS.

2011-05-20T16:57:00.001+06:00

Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

A planning is under process to disburse small loans to small entrepreneurs in the fisheries and livestock sector by the government. "The ministry is preparing a proposal in this regard," fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas told on Thursday. Loans ranging from Tk 10,000 to 30,000 would be given to unemployed but trained youths and farm entrepreneurs, he said.

"If the entrepreneurs want to raise livestock, poultry or farm fish, half of their loans will be provided in cash, while the livestock with the rest," Biswas said. The fund will, however, be a revolving one. It will begin work by coordinating all the running microcredit programmes under the ministry.

"The programme, if approved, could start operating in as early as July," Biswas said. The programme will emphasise raising goats and sheep, as entrepreneurs are seen to show more interest in such livestock. Officials said the ministry had been disbursing financial aid and loans to the sector, but there was no coordination. The target of this microcredit project was to create employments for youths not involved in farming.

Bangladesh going to expand the Agricultural Farming Industry in Tanzania.

2011-05-20T16:23:00.000+06:00

Local private sector company, Bhatibangla Agrotech, is going to sign a land-lease deal with Tanzania next week to produce crops in the East African country. "We're going to submit our proposal and working plan to Tanzania Agriculture Partnership Department on Friday and it's expected that the process will be completed within a week," Mizanur Rahman Azad, chief executive officer of Bhatibangla Agrotech, from Tanzania on Thursday.

"Initially, we would like to take on lease 30,000 hectares of land for 99 years with per annum cost of Tk 135 per hectare. We want to start the cultivation on June 10." Mizan said they had a plan to have 2.0 to 2.5 million hectares of land in Tanzania for cultivation.

"I discussed other major issues, including permission to grow any crop, procurement of farmers and seed from any country, repatriation of profit, and provision of loans," the Bhatibangla official said. Mizan said there were scopes to take on lease lands in South Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and Mozambique. "If land can be taken on lease in those countries, Bangladesh will need not to worry about food security for many years," he said.

A foreign ministry official said a business delegation last month visited Uganda and completed primary negotiations to take on lease 10,000 hectres of land. "Agriculture ministry is going to prepare a guideline for taking land on lease for farming in foreign countries," he said.

Nokia X2-01 QWERTY - A review from Bangladesh.

2011-05-17T18:54:00.001+06:00

The Nokia X2-01 has the right ingredients to serve and entertain. And if you’re looking to buy cheap, it’s an offer that’s hard to beat. With its combination of features and form factor versus price, the Nokia X2-01 has a market segment of its own. It’s another foot soldier in Nokia’s offensive in becoming the world’s number one QWERTY phone manufacturer.

Key features

Entry level QWERTY messenger bar
Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity
2.4" 256K-color QVGA TFT display with great sunlight legibility
VGA camera with QVGA video recording at 24fps
Series 40 UI, 6th edition
Stereo FM radio with RDS
Bluetooth 2.1 (with EDR)
Standard micro USB port
Micro SD card slot (8GB supported)
3.5mm audio jack
Good audio quality
Reasonable price: BDT 7400

This color is available in Bangladesh

Main disadvantages

No 3G
Piss poor camera
No smart dialing
No USB charging
No Data cable
No Micro SD card included

Some document viewer capabilities or basic multitasking should be included in the phone feature. This phone sometime turn-off without any notice if anyone try to do some multitasking activities, this is the major problem to handle this phone in rough time.

RAMNA BATAMUL TRIAL - Still need long way to establish Justice.

2011-04-14T13:21:00.000+06:00

Spot-death on the incident of Ramna Batamul, 2001

The nation will commemorate the 10 anniversary of the well-planned deadly explosions at Ramna Batamul. In a well-planned attack on April 14, 2001, militants threw grenades into the crowd, killing at least 10 people and wounding 50 others, blowing limbs off spectators as thousands gathered at Ramna Batamul in the capital to celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year's Day.

On the day of the incident, Nilkhet Police Camp sergeant Amal Chandra Chanda filed the two cases under killing and explosives acts with Ramna Police Station.

After the case had changed hands of six investigation officers, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf pressed charges in the court against 14 accused in the two cases on Nov 29, 2008.

The detained are Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leaders Mufti Abdul Hannan, Arif Hasan Sumaon, Shahadat Ullah Jewell, Hafez Maulana Abu Taher and Maulana Abdur Rauf. Maulana Akbar Hossain is on bail.

The case records say the two cases went to two speedy trial tribunals, yet the proceedings stalled. According to lawyers and records, the murder case failed to make headway due to absence of the investigation officer and other police officers.

The explosives case is waiting for a High Court directive.

As the case was not resolved within the stipulated 135 trial days due to the absence of the main witnesses, including the investigation officer, it went back to the Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court on May 24 last year.

Muhith's stance makes Ershad to stand against him.

2011-04-10T23:43:00.000+06:00

"I don't understand why the names of those who devastated hundreds of thousands of small investors by looting money from the share market won't be made public officially."Jatyia Party chairman H M Ershad, a key ally of the ruling alliance, says he is surprised as the finance minister declined to disclose the names of those responsible for the recent share market debacle.

Hours after the stocks probe committee submitted the report to the finance minister on Thursday, Muhith declined to disclose the names that were mentioned in the report since the committee has recommended further investigation.

The deposed military dictator urged the government to give exemplary punishment of those responsible for the stocks crash and compensation for the investors who suffered the losses.

"The government will be in trouble if anyone responsible for the stocks debacle goes unpunished," he said.

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2011-02-27T18:19:00.000+06:00

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2011-02-24T18:27:00.000+06:00

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2011-02-10T10:26:00.000+06:00

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